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· One min read
Sebastian Nagel

High-level summary

This week, the Hydra team has been working on refactoring and detecting network protocol version mismatches. They have also merged the /commit endpoint changes including a follow-up fix about fee calculation. Besides this, they applied minor workflow fixes by adding docker images to nix checks and disabling mithril integration testing on preview (until mithril 2418 is released).

What did the team achieve this week

  • Refactor connectivity and detect network protocol version mismatches #1381
  • Merged and completed #1350, including a follow-up fix about fee calculation
  • Add docker images to nix checks
  • Disable mithril-client testing on Preview

What are the goals of next week

  • Restructure documentation including a how to about streaming plugins #1325
  • Add arm64 docker images as requested in #1404
  • Release 0.17.0

· One min read
Damian Nadales

High level summary

  • Reworked the argument for the different databases used in Consensus, in preparation for UTxO-HD (#1059).
  • Helped review the first Peras Innovation draft report.
  • Continued working on VRF restriction based on slot distance. The corresponding PR (#1047) went through its first round of reviews.
  • Provided support to the Networking team to review their work on querying big ledger peers (#1067).
  • Continued working on open-sourcing fs-api and fs-sim.
  • Performed other minor refactorings in the codebase (#1073 and #1070).

· 2 min read
Jean-Philippe Raynaud

High level overview

This week, the Mithril team prepared a new pre-release distribution 2418.1-pre, which includes broader CPU support for pre-built binaries and a new memory allocator for the signer and aggregator nodes to prevent memory fragmentation. They also continued implementing the certification of Cardano transactions in Mithril networks and worked on scaling the signature and proof generation for mainnet by leveraging the compression of the transaction Merkle tree using sub-Merkle trees based on transaction block ranges during signature and proving. Additionally, they implemented a stream mechanism for importing transactions into the signer and aggregator stores.

Finally, the team started implementing a global Mithril networks configuration file and continued investigating some unexpected error logs occurring on the Cardano node when the signer and aggregator connect to the mini-protocols.

Low level overview

  • Created a pre-release for the new distribution 2418.1-pre
  • Completed the issue Store Block Range Merkle roots in signer and aggregator databases #1633
  • Completed the issue Stream import of Cardano transactions #1646
  • Completed the issue Memory leak in Cardano transactions signature/proof #1629
  • Completed the issue Handle unparsed blocks in Cardano transactions parser #1567
  • Worked on the issue Use Block Range Merkle roots to sign Cardano transactions #1634
  • Worked on the issue Use Block Range Merkle roots to prove Cardano transactions #1635
  • Worked on the issue Use SQLite transactions when inserting Cardano Transactions and Block Range Roots #1656
  • Worked on the issue Add Mithril networks configurations in networks.json #1638
  • Worked on the issue ChainObserver supports retrieving the Chain Point of the tip of the chain #1589
  • Worked on the issue Add section for manual setup of squid in SPO guide #1610
  • Worked on the issue Mithril Signer Local Error Policy : Error 182 - MuxError #1632

· One min read
Carlos LopezDeLara

2024-04-16 - 2024-04-26

High level summary

8.10.1-pre was released to SanchoNet.

The team continues focused on implementing tests for the Conway era on the cardano-node repository. This sprint the team made various improvements to CI pipelines on cardano-cli.

  • Cardano-cli: implemented build-estimate to facilitate automatic transaction balancing without access to a live node; and added minFeeRefScriptCostPerByte as an option to create-protocol-parameters-update command.

cardano-node

cardano-cli

cardano-api

cardano-testnet

docs

CI & project maintenance

· 3 min read
John Lotoski

High level summary

The SRE team continues work on cardano environment improvements and general environment maintenance.

Some notable recent changes, updates or improvements include:

  • Cardano-node 8.9.2 is now deployed to mainnet, preprod, preview and shelley-qa environments.

  • Cardano-node 8.10.1-pre is now deployed to sanchonet and also to one-third of IOGs preprod environment nodes and two-thirds of IOGs preview environment nodes.

  • Private chain for Voltaire team was paused with plans for a future respin.

  • The network team's ouroboros-network-ops machine cluster was re-written using the cardano-parts stack to upgrade from the nixops/terraform/niv stack it was previously using.

Lower level summary

Cardano-parts

  • Sets cardano-node to 8.9.2, dbsync-ng to sancho-4.2.0; mithril to 2412.0, iohk-nix to include new peerSharing defaults and introduce a new block producer config. Adds a new truncate-chain recipe and improves mithril related services. More detail is available in the PR description: cardano-parts-pull-38

  • Sets cardano-node pre (-ng) to 8.10.1, dbsync to 13.2.0.2; mithril pre (-ng) to unstable, iohk-nix and iohk-nix-ng pin includes new Cardano Foundation bootstrap relays. Adds new aws machine management and other recipes, metadata job support for pool creation, misc fixes and improvements. More detail is available in the PR description: cardano-parts-pull-39

Cardano-mainnet

  • Sets cardano-node to 8.9.2, mithril to 2412.0, iohk-nix to include new peerSharing defaults and colmena.nix cluster refactor for peerSharing adjustments and implements all updates in cardano-parts PR#38. See the PR description for more details: cardano-mainnet-pull-12

  • Sets dbsync to 13.2.0.2, iohk-nix and iohk-nix-ng to include new CF relays, adds new aws machine management recipes and implements all updates in cardano-parts PR#39. See the PR description for more details: cardano-mainnet-pull-13

Cardano-node

  • Default peerSharing true and add block producer config to release binaries. See the PR description for more details: cardano-node-pull-5789

Cardano-ops

Cardano-perf

  • Adds a caddy webserver for run reviews and tunes the NVME FS mounts for performance: cardano-perf-compare

Cardano-playground

  • Sets cardano-node to 8.9.2, mithril to 2412.0, iohk-nix to include new peerSharing defaults, refactors mdbook out of docs dir, adds example chain manipulation doc and implements all updates in cardano-parts PR#38. See the PR description for more details: cardano-playground-pull-21

  • Sets cardano-node pre (-ng) to 8.10.1, dbsync to 13.2.0.2, mithril pre (-ng) to unstable, iohk-nix and iohk-nix-ng to include new CF relays, adds a public TLS dbsync user connection option, stops private chain cluster and implements all updates in cardano-parts PR#39. See the PR description for more details: cardano-playground-pull-22

Iohk-nix

Ouroboros-network-ops

Sanchonet

Sanchonet-demo